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The United States “floods” Mexico with weapons, according to an investigation
The United States “floods” Mexico with weapons, according to an investigation
That is the conclusion of the investigation of the newspaper El Universal, one of the most important in the Mexican country, after reporting the 58% increase in… 06.04.2023, Sputnik Mundo
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Latin America
Mexico
security
arms sales
🛡️ military industry
🛡️ armed forces
andres manuel lopez obrador
the universal (daily)
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
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The note, entitled “Mexico is flooded with US weapons” and published on Saturday, June 3, is prepared with official information that El Universal obtained after submitting a request for information to the Secretary of National Defense (Sedena) through the National Transparency Platform. According to the figures reported by the newspaper, during the period from 2019 to 2022, the first four years of the six-year term of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, 6,577,148 firearms, chargers, cartridges, grenades were seized and vehicles in Mexican territory. In the breakdown of the weapons seized by the Mexican authorities, according to information from the Sedena that El Universal reproduces, the firearms seized were 24,593; the chargers, 104,861; the cartridges, 6,417,398; grenades, 2,012, and vehicles, 28,284. Last month, during President López Obrador’s morning press conference, Defense Secretary Luis Crescencio Sandoval had reported an increase in the confiscation of weapons since January 1 from 2018 to May 1, 2023. According to their numbers, during that period, longer than the one analyzed by El Universal, 39,982 weapons and 18 million cartridges were seized. However, the security experts who spoke with El Universal point out that “the increase in seizures does not mean greater efficiency in the operations, but that more war material is entering the country.” One thing that Secretary Sandoval and the El Universal article do agree on is responsibility in the phenomenon of the United States, whose main arms manufacturers are being sued by the Mexican State for their complicity in the production of material that, according to the lawsuit, leads to illegal trafficking into Mexico and the consequent increase in violence and crime in the country. During the press conference in which he presented the figures for the seizure of weapons, Sandoval indicated that “approximately 70%” of the seized weapons are of United States origin and manufacture. Meanwhile, one of the experts consulted in In the article published by El Universal, Martín Íñiguez Ramos, an academic at UNAM’s Faculty of Political and Social Sciences (FCPyS), points out that 80% of the illegal weapons seized in the period analyzed by the newspaper come from the United States.
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USA, Mexico, security, arms sales, 🛡️ military industry, 🛡️ armed forces, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, El Universal (daily), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
USA, Mexico, security, arms sales, 🛡️ military industry, 🛡️ armed forces, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, El Universal (daily), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
That is the conclusion of the investigation of the newspaper El Universal, one of the most important in the Mexican country, after reporting a 58% increase in the seizure of war material in just four years.
According to the figures reported by the newspaper, during the period from 2019 to 2022, the first four years of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s six-year term, 6,577,148 firearms, chargers, cartridges, grenades, and vehicles were seized in the territory. Mexican.
This is an increase of 58.88% in terms of confiscations of war material compared to the first four years of the government of Enrique Peña Nieto, in which 4,145,406 of the same objects were seized.
In the breakdown of the weapons seized by the Mexican authorities, according to information from the Sedena that El Universal reproduces, the firearms seized were 24,593; the chargers, 104,861; the cartridges, 6,417,398; the grenades, 2,012, and the vehicles, 28,284.
Last month, during President López Obrador’s morning press conference, Defense Secretary Luis Crescencio Sandoval had reported an increase in the confiscation of weapons from January 1, 2018 to May 1, 2023.
According to their numbers, during that period, longer than the one analyzed by El Universal, 39,982 weapons and 18 million cartridges were seized.
One thing that Secretary Sandoval and the El Universal article do agree on is responsibility in the United States phenomenonwhose main arms manufacturers are being sued by the Mexican state for their complicity in the production of material that, according to the lawsuit, leads to illegal trafficking into Mexico and the consequent increase in violence and crime in the country.
During the press conference in which he presented the figures for the seizure of weapons, Sandoval indicated that “approximately 70%” of the seized weapons are of US origin and manufacture.
Meanwhile, one of the experts consulted in the article by El Universal, Martín Íñiguez Ramos, an academic at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences (FCPyS) of the UNAM, points out that 80% of the illegal weapons seized in the period analyzed by the newspaper come from the United States.
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